Soft Logic
Lunds konsthall, 7.02 – 10.05 2026
Tensta konsthall, 9.10 2025 – 18.1 2026
Curated by Cecilia Widenheim and Bella Rune
Photo: OMN / Lunds konsthall
Photo: Jean Baptiste Béranger

Scores
2021-25
20 floor objects in cotton in combination with mural

Kunstendag voor Kinderen (Art Day for Children)
2021
Video, 1'21", sound
Image, sound, editing: Rik Vannevel. Produced by Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium, for the exhibition Luca Frei: working spacing moving in 2021.

Luca Lee Frei moves between sculpture, installation, textile, exhibition and book design in works that may have purely practical purposes or suggest a pragmatic aesthetic in relation to the context at hand. He is interested in collective processes and pedagogics and often uses themes or experiences from everyday life. A central concern is the capacity of art to guide viewers along certain tracks through a space and let their bodies contribute to an experience that is both spatial and visual. 

During a stay in Tokyo Lee Frei developed his thoughts on the unique characteristics of textile: to be portable, to shape-shift when necessary and to be reconfigured through folding, recycling and relocation. After that he has made a range of works relating to textile in various ways, as material, tactility and language. For many years Lee Frei has worked on the heritage of Bauhaus. The legendary school in Dessau, Germany, championed a revolutionary approach to the relationship between art, craft and society between the world wars. Not least, it also developed a new reformed pedagogy for art and design. In Lee Frei's works, play is always present as a method for learning. The encounter between different colours, shapes and symbols creates pleasurable situations of playful togetherness.

Sometimes the works are designed as scores, a kind of gaming rules or notations suggesting how an artwork may be interpreted or activated. This opens them up for interaction and improvisation. Scores may be described as acting shapes on the floor, a soft articulation of the hard in-between spaces of writing, expressed through signs like the comma, the dash or the full stop. The installation of textile objects in yellow, green, white, purple and red evolves according to the space where they are shown. Its character will surely change during the exhibition, as visitors reconfigure the textile symbols. After the installation was shown in Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens new forms were added in Tensta konsthall, and this will also happen at Lunds konsthall. Scores is a work that expands with time. (Catalogue text)